Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. I could also use mtpfs, or adb push.
Yes, exactly, with shell wildcards, a find command or whatever is needed to transfer the files all at once.
However I'm specifically after an easy-to-use solution appropriate for someone who uses desktop environments.
I suppose you mean someone who uses desktop environments and who doesn't know shell commands well enough to perform the task (most people run desktop environments, even if only minimal ones and even if they spend much of their time at the shell prompt). Then add a stipulation that the user isn't willing to learn the said shell commands, despite the time that would be saved compared with manually selecting and transferring the files. for that kind of user, frankly, I'd recommend staying with Windows, OSX or whatever they're familiar with. This is not a criticism of Linux, implicitly or explicitly, just a recognition that different systems are best suited for different users and different use cases - and that's fine, in my view. I suppose I never joined the "let's make Linux suitable for non-technical end-users" crowd, for a variety of reasons, and so I don't judge the success of Linux on the basis of whether it ever succeeds in that role, which at this point it may not, except in the form of highly customized systems such as Android, or perhaps Plasma or Ubuntu for mobile and similar efforts if they gain hardware support. For people who want or need a good UNIX-like environment, whether on the desktop, laptop or server, it's great and will continue to be so, while providing all the advantages of being free software/open-source. It's also an excellent environment for new users to discover new and different ways of working, and those include the shell as well as all of the different desktop environments/window managers on offer and, in general, the great diversity that can be seen in any large Linux distribution - but it requires someone who is curious and willing to learn in order to benefit from that freedom and to make those choices. And yes, there probably is and should be a way to transfer those files from a graphical file manager - I'm not the best qualified to answer the question posed.